EUPHURBIACE^. 215 



exserted iutrorse ; cells pendulous, saccate dilated below, shortly 

 acuminate at apex. Disk pcrigynous annular. Female calyx 5-6- 

 jmrtite, imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style . . . ?" 

 Friiit' snbligueous, indehiscent (?), albumen of thick seed oily (sapid); 

 cotyledons of foliaceous embryo large. — A tree ; wood hard ; juice 

 watery ; leaves alternate large entire penninerved ; stipules lanceolate 

 entire ; flowers terminal spicate ; male spikes ramified subpyramidal ; 

 female simple bracteate ; female pedicels finally thick short. (iV^. 

 Granada. ^) 



75. Platygyne Merc.'' — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens subdefinite in number, usually 

 5-8 ; filaments free erect, inserted above the base of truncate- 

 excavate and rufescent-strigose receptacle, slightly recurved at 

 apex ; anthers adnate extrorse ; cells at base and apex discrete rimose. 

 Female calyx unequally 5-7-phyllous ; leaves imbricated or sub- 

 valvate. Germen o-loeular ; cells 1-ovulate; style larger than ger- 

 men erect-3-lobed from obconical base ; lobes thick inwardly 

 subaugular-compressed, emarginate-2-lobed at apex, much lacerate- 

 papillose within. Capsule 3-coccous; seeds exarillate albuminous. — A 

 volubile slu'ub, sprinkled with more or less urent rufescont hairs ; stem 

 sympodiale ; leaves alternate penninerved dentate petiolate, rigidly 

 stipulate ; flowers terminating short oppositifolious or lateral twigs, 

 usually oligophyllous ; male racemose ; female subspicate. ( Cuba. *) 



70. Amperea A, Juss.^ — Flowers usually dioecious or more rarely 

 monoecious, apetalous, 3-5-merous. Male sepals free or slightly 

 connate at base, valvate. Disk membraneous; glands lanceolate 

 membraneous 4, 5 (Euamjicrea^), or more rarely {3Ionotaxidium''). 

 Stamens central twice as numerous as the sepals, 2-seriate ; filaments 

 free or connate at base erect ; anther cells sacciform pendulous from 

 connective glandular-incrassate or cristate in bud; the ojipositi- 

 sepalous longer, extrorsely rimose ; the alternisepalous shorter 

 iutrorse. Female calyx 5-merous ; leaves free or subfi-ee imbricated. 



I The shapeless nut of Juglaiid ovoid-glohose appropriate, the flower being rarely 6-androus). 



smooth, shortly apiculate. — Tragia hexandra J acq.. Amer. 2in,t. \Ti, ^g. 



- Spec. 1. C. oriiKJCciisc Kaest. Inc. cit. C3. — T. pruriena W. (ex. Kl. in Endl. Out. loc. 



3 In Ser. MM. But. i. 1G7.— H. Bn. iCuphnrb. cit.). 



453, t. 4, fig. 18-22.— M. Auo. Prodr. 913.— s Euphm-b. 3r,, t. 10, fig. 22.— Endl. Oeii. 



AcunthocttuloH Kl. in Eiidt. Gen. Suppl. v. n. .'5813.— H. Bn. i'HjoAor*. 454, 1. 14, fig. 1-9. — 



88 n. 6784'. M. Ana. Prodr. 214. 



< Spec. 1. P. pruriens. — P. uren.i Meuc. loc. <> M. Aro. loc. cit. 214, sect. 2. 



cit. — P. hexandra M. Abg. (a name scarcely ' M. Ako. he. cit. 213, sect. 1. 



